With the negative aspects of the game of football becoming ever so popular these days, every club is trying their best to bag some worthy defenders for their squads to guard their goal posts.
The most important element in a team’s defence is its goal keeper. Given that the defenders and the midfielders have a lot to say in what the outcome of the goals scored in the game are going to be, the last line of defence remains
the goalkeeper and he is without a doubt one of the most vital parts of the whole blockade.
Goalkeepers are normally the show-stoppers of the game where they either let one pass and look down in disappointment or either they stop the ball and throw it back into the midfield to let-on the attack once again.
The goalkeeper has the most responsibility when it comes to stopping goals from being scored and is definitely the most cheered when the match stops as he just saved the entire endeavour from failure.
The fact of the matter is that in most teams the goalie is one of the most unrecognized players on the field as everyone just keeps an eye on the man scoring the goals rather than the one who stops them. Still he is one of the
most important people on the field.
Right now there are several world class goalkeepers playing the beautiful game of football and after them are the numerous rising stars that will continue to stop the ball with their amazing talents in the future.
So here is a list of the most highly rated goalkeepers in the world:
5 - Joe Hart
Joe Hart the twenty three year old goalkeeper who currently plays for Manchester City is credited to be one of the best youngest footballers in the world.
As he was also nominated for the PFA Player of the Year award this year but lost to his team mate, he was even voted as the Best Goalkeeper in the English Premier League and is praised by almost every other goalkeeper in the world.
He is also a regular in the Three Lions and started out at Shrewsbury Town’s Youth Academy and made it into their first team in 2003 at only sixteen. Then after making fifty four appearances for the club he got a big money transfer
to Manchester City in 2006.
With the Citizens this player has worked wonders and has really matured and grown in the team. He has made sixty three appearances with the club as of yet and has spent three loan spells out of the Eastland’s.
Two of those spells came in 2007, one with Tranmere Rovers where he made six appearances and the other with Blackpool FC where he made only five appearances.
He moved back to Manchester City to go on another loan spell again after two years with Birmingham City from 2009-10. Now the gem is back at the Eastland’s and is playing with all his might in his best form.
He has also been a part of the English national team for the Under-19 team and climbing the ladder through to the Under-21 team he made it to the Three Lions first team squad in 2008.
Continued in Part 2.
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